3rd Mobile provider coming?!

[tiger balm]

Well well folks seems that we can look forward to another mobile company. The PM announced at the Chinese/Caribbean conference today that the government intends to have a 3rd mobile provider to join bmobile and digicel. I'm not sure if the company will be approved by the end of the year or if that's the deadline for the bids though.

Wonder who we can look forward to?

By d way: this came across 12pm news today just incase some of u were wondering.

CNews link: http://www.ctntworld.com/LocalArticles.aspx?id=31638

[Stephon.]

This is good news, could only benefit the citizens, bmobile will always be the best at the mobile phone industry in Trinidad though, I'm just looking forward to the new deals bmobile will come up with to counter this new company. Its entertaining.

[Greypatch]

gotta learn some chinese then

[iDynamic]

gotta learn some chinese then

Is it a Chinese mobile provider?

[16 cycles]

people gonna walk around with 3 phones now???

[jmccomie]

idiots gonna walk around with 3 phones now!!!

Fixed

[Country_Bookie]

bmobile will always be the best at the mobile phone industry in Trinidad though, .

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[tiger balm]

I hope it's a very established company so that it can force bmobile and digicel (for those of you who're with them) to bring better mobile technology to T&T. We really need another provider, the benefit of having digicel competing with bmobile has stagnated in the last year or two.

[RBphoto]

Tripple sim phone IYMC!!

[foss]

Tripple sim phone IYMC!!

[RBphoto]

Tripple sim phone IYMC!!

http://www.amazon.com/Standby-Quadband- ... =de_a_smtd

Have a batch on order. Applying for power seller status tomorrow.

Talk nah Raptor!!

[AllTrac]

nice, we welcome them all, the more the merrier. Need some more alternatives to cable and internet to.

[Habit7]

the market would be more competetive if you can take your number with you across networks as it is in certain countries. For instance, if you have digicel and feel like you want to be with bmobile now, you can switch networks and still have the number you had with digicel

[UML]

glad to hear....wow the PM really does take my suggestions.

[redmanjp]

^^ aka number portability

would be good if they actually bring 4g services to phones hell even 3g would work cause right now we still using EDGE

[Devourment]

the market would be more competetive if you can take your number with you across networks as it is in certain countries. For instance, if you have digicel and feel like you want to be with bmobile now, you can switch networks and still have the number you had with digicel

There will be a lot of opposition of this from Bmobile.


There's no telling who the 3rd operator will be. Honestly, as far as I know, there were the last couple operators that have shown interest in T&T's market.

Verizon
Sask Tel
Claro

[Michael Knight...]

This is good news, could only benefit the citizens, bmobile will always be the best at the mobile phone industry in Trinidad though, I'm just looking forward to the new deals bmobile will come up with to counter this new company. Its entertaining.

More jobs, yes!

[foss]

Tripple sim phone IYMC!!

http://www.amazon.com/Standby-Quadband- ... =de_a_smtd

Have a batch on order. Applying for power seller status tomorrow.

Talk nah Raptor!!

BODOW !!!

[Parvin]

Waiting to see if they bring in better services

[Devourment]

This is good news, could only benefit the citizens, bmobile will always be the best at the mobile phone industry in Trinidad though, I'm just looking forward to the new deals bmobile will come up with to counter this new company. Its entertaining.

More jobs, yes!

With respect to jobs, look for a Digi invasion all over again. This happens all over the world.

The new operator will look to hire the best employees from both TSTT & Digicel. Weakening both operators while simultaneously obtaining insider info on the competitor.

Once that's done, they will hire the plebs and pay them next to nothing while they do most of the work.

[AllTrac]

This is good news, could only benefit the citizens, bmobile will always be the best at the mobile phone industry in Trinidad though, I'm just looking forward to the new deals bmobile will come up with to counter this new company. Its entertaining.

More jobs, yes!

With respect to jobs, look for a Digi invasion all over again. This happens all over the world.

The new operator will look to hire the best employees from both TSTT & Digicel. Weakening both operators while simultaneously obtaining insider info on the competitor.

Once that's done, they will hire the plebs and pay them next to nothing while they do most of the work.

Thats good business. The company that loses its employees should of offered them better packages to keep them there.

[Habit7]

the market would be more competetive if you can take your number with you across networks as it is in certain countries. For instance, if you have digicel and feel like you want to be with bmobile now, you can switch networks and still have the number you had with digicel

There will be a lot of opposition of this from Bmobile.

As opposed to more more competition?

Anyways, who will be willing to come into our tiny market in this guava crop season? Jamaica's 3 provider struggled until it gave in and was assimilated.
Could 3 man rat live in this hole?

[shaq090]

and claro is bmobile??????? cornfused....hope its AT&T THO....or to me i heard it was some cdma company....sprint or verizon....cant remember...but i heard this some time this month

[Bizzare]

You guys are really getting excited much too quickly. Hopefully its a well known service provider, that offers GREAT SERVICE, COMPETITIVE FEES and most importantly NEWER TECHNOLOGY!!!

Digicel came and put an end to what was basically a monopoly (bmobile/tstt). That's great. The monopoly is already broken. So now, we don't need just another service provider.

If this new service provider is just as mediocre as the current two that exist, expect nothing different other than, Chinese who can barely speak proper English when you call the technical department, Beethamites/Laventillians in their every outlet who doesn't know a thing about customer service, and more half usable Iphone's 4s.

I'm looking forward to this and hope it isn't a disappointment.

[mediahouse]

Tripple sim phone IYMC!!

triple sim is old news it have 4 sim phones now

[Kish]

the market would be more competetive if you can take your number with you across networks as it is in certain countries. For instance, if you have digicel and feel like you want to be with bmobile now, you can switch networks and still have the number you had with digicel

this isn't as simple as it sounds. i for one hope it never happens. it's loads of headache for the engineers in the companies and it also requires all international operators to make their changes. you stand the risk of trying to roam in a country and it doesn't work because someone forgot to add this config.

and with 3 operators it will be a disaster, the only way is more jobs with more staff to deal with managing these changes, so that's a plus as there will be more employment.

[stev]

meh...this gonna be a looong time from now.

I got word of this 6 months ago when i used to work for a chinese company that provides network hardware for TSTT.

they now announce this to the general public....i guess we looking at 1 or 2 years before we can get some service from them?

[Bizzare]

meh...this gonna be a looong time from now.

I got word of this 6 months ago when i used to work for a chinese company that provides network hardware for TSTT.

they now announce this to the general public....i guess we looking at 1 or 2 years before we can get some service from them?

Me also, I'm guessing we use to work at the same company? Maraval road?
I don't think it's the same company though, cuz I heard that was cancelled.

[Trini Hookah]

crossdrilled, no BLU no care

[Habit7]

the market would be more competetive if you can take your number with you across networks as it is in certain countries. For instance, if you have digicel and feel like you want to be with bmobile now, you can switch networks and still have the number you had with digicel

this isn't as simple as it sounds. i for one hope it never happens. it's loads of headache for the engineers in the companies and it also requires all international operators to make their changes. you stand the risk of trying to roam in a country and it doesn't work because someone forgot to add this config.

and with 3 operators it will be a disaster, the only way is more jobs with more staff to deal with managing these changes, so that's a plus as there will be more employment.

Welcome to the 21st century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_number_portability